July 21, 2005

Know Your Psychoactives

Erowid is an organization dedicated to providing accurate, truthful information about "...psychoactive medications, entheogens, herbs, and recreational drugs". Thousands of contributors world-wide share their experiences in the Erowid Experience Vault, where Nemo has this to say about his first experience with Methamphetamine:

I plugged my electric guitar in for a couple hours and played like
hell. I'm not a bad player normally, everyone who hears me thinks I
sound amazing, but I let them judge that and refuse to evaluate my own
abilities. Few times have I felt the music the way I felt it when I
played that night however, I was shredding and screaming away with
pretty accurate and impressive technique to boot, I just had this
incredible sense of streaming energy; it was beyond just the physical
effects of a CNS stimulant, that was partly responsible for my just
wanting to tear through the strings, but I was thinking fast and hard
about what I was doing, I've never experienced such great mental
capacity and lucidity before, on anything. The only drawback I noticed
in the entire experience was with playing however, sometimes when I
played really fast passages my left hand would get a more nervous
energy feeling, it would tense up and start to shake slightly;
obviously this reduced my accuracy and the tension would make the
graceful motion that one SHOULD play with more difficult, to combat
this I had to stop completely for a second and relaxe my arm
completely, and resume playing concentrating more on controlling my
fingers.